“I am still alive. They never caught me. This is your notorious grandmother, ‘The Blond Tigress.’ I am in my 90s now and having some medical problems.”
Eleanor Jarman tells Capt. Willard Malone of the Austin police station of the holdup and killing of an elderly shopkeeper as she gazes at the arsenal found in her flat at 6323 Drexel Avenue in Chicago in 1933.
Doug Jarman’s father, LeRoy, said he had dug a 4-by-12-foot tunnel beneath his garage. LeRoy Jarman had hoped his mother would one day show up at his Sioux City home, once she’d shook the cops and prison officials who surely would be looking for her, and he needed a way to hide her. In 1920, she married Michael Roy Jarman. They had two children, LeRoy and LaVerne, and moved to Chicago in 1923. Drinking heavily, her husband stopped supporting Eleanor and the boys. She got her own apartment at 4300 W. Madison Street, and George Dale, a factory worker became her live-in lover.
Beginning in January 1933, the Tribune ran a series of stories about what could have been the Kennedy/Minneci/Jarman crew under headlines like: “A girl assisted a two-gun bandit in the robbery at the fruit store at 1614 Devon Ave. last night.”The crimes were soon attributed to a “Blonde Tigress,” a headline-grabbing nickname based on her hair color and testimony from witnesses saying she was much more than just a lookout.
Chicago was experiencing a crime wave that put enormous pressure on cops and the state’s attorney of Cook County. The Blonde Tigress gave them an opportunity to show they weren’t soft on crime. At the trial, Eleanor Jarman stands next to co-defendants, Leo Minneci, center, and George Dale in 1933. Editors note: this historic print has some hand painting on it.
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